1. JManga Launches, Almost Yuri Free 1 hour ago permalinkToday was the big launch date for new manga platform JManga, the digital solution to manga fans' desires. Of course it's not perfect, no one expected it to be. But for Yuri fans, the lack of...almost anything...is notable and regrettable.
2. “For Want of a Nail” is a Hugo nominee! 1 hour ago permalinkI am very, very pleased to announce that my short story, “For Want of a Nail” is on the Hugo ballot this year. I got to sit in the crowd at Norwescon and watch the Hugo nominations be announced, live. This was a lot of fun. Especially when my name went up on the screen with the story. Heavens!
3. Ed’s Saturday At Baltimore Comic-Con 2011 1 hour ago permalinkBy Ed Sizemore Johanna and I made our annual daytrip to the Baltimore Comic-Con (BCC) this year. My focus was on getting at least one commissioned sketch of Astro Boy and Superman done. They are my two favorite heroes, and I wanted a couple pieces of art with them together. I began Saturday walking around [...]
4. AliveCor Turns Mobile Devices Into Low-Cost Heart Monitors, Raises $3 Million 1 hour ago permalinkAliveCor , developer of a low-budget electrocardiogram (ECG) recorder that works in conjunction with a variety of mobile platforms (including iPhone, iPad, and Android devices), has raised $3 million in Series A funding, the company announced this morning. The financing round was led by Burrill & Company along with Qualcomm, acting through ...
5. Tuesday New Release Day: Millhauser, Matar, Shakar, Fuller, Chez Panisse 56 minutes ago permalinkSteven Millhauser’s new collection We Others is out this week, as are Hisham Matar’s Anatomy of a Disappearance and Alex Shakar’s Luminarium. Here at The Millions, Shakar recently offered the harrowing story of the publication of his first novel. Alexandra Fuller has a new memoir out. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness. 6. How ‘Doing The Math’ Adds Up To Increased Online Revenue 56 minutes ago permalinkLast week I saw a pretty impressive number: $1.2 million. That's was the annual incremental revenue that one online business expects to generate just by doing some simple math for its customers. Here's how it works: You extend an offer based on ... 7. 5 Page Preview of Kevin Smith's Bionic Man 1 hour ago permalinkKevin Smith in the past wrote a screenplay for The Six Million Dollar Man, and an executive and the studio quipped that the screenplay read more like a comic then a movie. Instead of letting that bother him, Kevin thought of it has a compliment and a suggestion and has now turned his childhood hero into a comic book hero. By the way anyone not ... 8. Producer Proposes New Star Trek TV Series 1 hour ago permalinkFoster has been working on the secret project for quite some time. There has been a smattering of rumors that he had been working on a series, but this is the first time he has unveiled any details. The project has been working under the code name S.E.T.I., and the actual title has not be made public. Foster has said that past Star Trek producers, 9. CBI more upbeat on manufacturing 1 hour ago permalinkWas the manufacturing upturn a flash in the pan, or did it just hit a temporary soft patch? The latest CBI industrial trends survey offers some encouragement for the latter view. These are the highlights: "Of the 510 manufacturers responding... 10. Scene Details With 'Loki' & Video Coverage For The Avengers' "Germany" Shoot! 2 hours ago permalinkFollowing the big reveal of Tom Hiddleston's "Loki" on last night's Cleveland shoot, doubling for Germany in The Avengers, somewhat revealing details have been revealed. And along with video coverage, featuring a car flipping, check it out! According to one of the movie's extra, Terminal Tower was being used as a museum, and the extra told ...
11. 6 Tips to Keep Blog Visitors On Your Site 1 hour ago permalinkYour blog posts are optimized, your pages are visible in the search engines, and you have a blogging strategy for SEO. But when visitors land on a blog post, you want them to do more than read it and leave; you want them to visit additional... 12. Irregular Webcomic 2 hours ago permalinkThis work is copyright and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Licence by David Morgan-Mar. dmm@irregularwebcomic.net 13. Darths & Droids 2 hours ago permalinkCopyright © 2007-2011, The Comic Irregulars. irregulars@darthsanddroids.net Star Wars and associated character, planet, vehicle, and creature names are registered trademarks of Lucasfilm Ltd, which does not sponsor, authorise, or endorse this site. This is a fan-produced parody site. Original film images are ... 14. Muriel Spark 2 hours ago permalinkThis page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets (CSS) if you are able to do so.
15. Blogging 2 hours ago permalinkDoes anyone read this thing anymore? I'm trying to decide whether I should start blogging actively again or not...... 16. Lessons Gaddafi Should Have Learnt from North Korea 3 hours ago permalinkJoshua from One Free Korea, in comparing the North Korean situation with the fall of Gaddafi, explains about the importance of the nuclear deterrent in sustaining the North Korean regime and its dictator, Kim Jong-il. Written by Lee Yoo Eun · comments (0) Share: facebook · twitter · reddit ·... 17. Daily Crunch: Dry Ice Machine 4 hours ago permalinkHere are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: TC Tests The GeoMate Jr., A Geocaching GPS Unit For The Wee Ones A Woman, A Cupcake, A Bank And A Square: Why Credit Card Companies Are Scared Of Change New Research Weaves Omnidirectional Antennas Into Clothing Jetty The Duct-Cleaning Robot Will Hunt You Down, Wash You With Dry ... 18. Canon Unveils New Line Of PowerShot Digital Cameras 4 hours ago permalinkNothing goes better with back-to-school clothes than a nice little point-and-shoot. Thus, Canon’s timing couldn’t be any better. Today the new PowerShot digital cameras are making their debut, and from the looks of it, Canon has its bases covered. We have three new models: the PowerShot SX150 IS, PowerShot Elph 510 HS, and the PowerShot Elph ... 19. Research And Compare 5 hours ago permalinkUsers can compare products from many different stores and brands and get feedback from their friends and communities about which products to buy. Date Updated: 2011-08-23 Developer: amurph59 Tags: reference , search , shopping , social APIs: Amazon EC2 , Amazon eCommerce , Amazon S3 , Facebook , MailChimp , Scalr , SocialOomph , Twitter , YouTube 20. MiniDates 5 hours ago permalinkMiniDat.es is an online speed dating application that connects singles via actual phone conversations rather than impersonal chat rooms or emails. Along the same lines of speed dating, our phone conversations or "mini dates" are limited to three minutes each. This is enough time for users to meet each other and chat but not too much ... |
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